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Bv DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
®*PP*h*niiock News Staff Writer
If the Gipper can be president of the United States, then certainly Henry Higgins should be able to find a place in the diplomatic corps.
At least, that’s Terry Woodward’s premise. The young man who enchanted audiences with his performance as Eliza Doolittle’s mentor in the 1979 RCHS production of “My Fair Lady” is leaving in September for a year of teaching in China, an assignment that he hopes will separate him for the hordes who take the Foreign Service exam each year.
“Last November, when I took the exam, there were about 20,000 people trying for 200 openings. There were PhDs who’d taken the thing five times,” Woodward said. “You need an edge to set you off from the others. I hope this will be it.”
How did a budding thespian wind up with a job teaching English at Nanning University in southern China, hoping to parlay the position into a diplomatic career? Well, his ambition certainly wasn’t sparked by the success of the Hollywood movie star who now stands at the front of the ranks of world leaders.
Woodward describes the current administration’s approach to diplomacy as “cowboy politics... the big fist is going to win out” tactics. He wasn’t inspired by Ronald Reagan; happenstance, rather than inspiration, set him on his present
course.
Woodward’s heroes were the giants of stage and screen and he expected to follow them to the white lights and Broadway. A series of coincidences led to China instead.
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